Re: jewish hurdy gurdy

[Beverly Woods <tradmusic...>]

> let it be noted that in the early 1980s (83 or 84?), Hulgar Nath,
> then a graduate student in Yiddish at Columbia University, now
> teaching Yiddish back in his homeland Germany, used to come to the
> Bronx to play hurdy-gurdy with the klezmer fiddler Moyshe Nussbaum,
> and I videotaped a Purim simkha at our "sholem aleichem kultur
> tsenter" with Hulgar, Moyshe and Michael Alpert entertaining the
> guests together.  I might have been banging the "broombass", the
> "devil stick" that Nussbaum made too. Perhaps Adam Whiteman played
> bass at that occassion as well.
>
> ?Ýitzik gottesman 

Wish I could have heard that! If anyone has any recordings or insight into
the historical uses of hurdy gurdy in klezmer, I would be very grateful to
know about it.

Beverly
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